Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...louse-born typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Thus it became possible to inoculate armies against typhus, just as armies of the War and since have been regularly inoculated against typhoid and smallpox. But, although whole civilian populations have been gradually inoculated against smallpox, it remains a question whether under stress of war whole populations can be speedily immunized against typhus...
Progressive schools in Czechoslovakia, like those in the U. S., stress moppets' health (see cut), and teach children informally: let them learn arithmetic by keeping records of their height and weight; teach them reading by the "global method" (to recognize whole words instead of plodding through them letter by letter...
Thus the student is given an opportunity not only to make up uncovered ground, but a fresh approach to his courses through the eyes of young men not permanently connected with Harvard. The Directors of the Summer School stress particularly getting young men representative of Universities all over the country as instructors. In this way the heavy emphasis on minute scholarship which the student faces during the academic year is relieved, and an idea of the trends of thought in other sections of the country obtained...
...have had reunions recently have felt that a little too much stress was laid on entertainment and not enough on renewing contacts with the college and their classmates, he explained...
Under the previsions of his bill, Foley explained that taxable property assessments would jump $20,000,000. On the same point University officials took pains to stress that under terms of a voluntary agreement concluded with the city in 1928. Harvard's share was $7,400 a year on land worth...